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On June 9th we helped celebrate Nana Nkweti’s new short story collection (and one of Javier’s favorite books this year) Walking on Cowrie Shells. Nana will be in conversation with Alexia Arthurs. Nana Nkweti is the author of Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories. She is an AKO Caine Prize finalist and alumna of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has garnered fellowships from MacDowell, Kimbilio, Ucross, and the Wurlitzer Foundation, among others. She is a professor of English at the University of Alabama. Alexia Arthurs was born in Jamaica and moved with her family to Brooklyn when she was twelve. A graduate of Hunter College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has published fiction in Granta, The Sewanee Review, Small Axe, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, Shondaland, Buzzfeed, and The Paris Review, which awarded her the Plimpton Prize in 2017. She is a recipient of an O. Henry award for the short story "Mermaid River." How to Love a Jamaican is her first book.